Why do tracks lose quality when played in traktor??

Do you still differing qualities if you run Traktor using your internal soundcard?
What about using WMP with your external soundcard?
Check you don’t have any filters or FX activated in Traktor and reset all your EQs

Don’t think cracked should have anything to do with it, although of course you should buy it! (Or get something else you might like now that you know Traktor 8-)).

There are a few things going on inside traktor of course, like limiting, perhaps compression, maybe a filter that’s on and slightly off centre. EQ’s not quite neutral.

There really is no reason why it shouldn’t sound like when you use media player or something similar. The other players don’t have any of the fancy options and will just play the plain track. In Traktor you have many tools. That is good, but bad in a sense that a wrong setting CAN cause things to sound worse.

In your OP you said it didn’t sound as clear. That is indicative of something going wrong between mid-high and hig. Which brings me back to the filter. Are you sure it is off?

Short anecdote: I just bought my MC6000 and was playing with Traktor. At one point I got no sound in my headphones when I cued one deck, the other played fine. I opened the fader a bit and still no sound. I flipped, swore and tossed a regular CD on as the next track (thank god for backup). I shut down Traktor and rebooted my laptop. When it came back up it was all peachy. Week or two later same problem, less stressful evening. So, I started looking at what was happening. I hadn’t used my filters yet, and one filter knob was turned anti-clockwise to the stop. Since both filters were turned off, nothing happened. Since the MC6000 has many great features, but it is a tad cramped, I had accidentally hit the on switch for the filter and with the knob turned all the way, the result was … no sound.

Goes to show that sometimes the simplest things can mess up something that really doesn’t need to be.

Greetinx,
C.

Hey, Broom. Have you tried using Traktor’s Demo Version?

COINCIDENCE? I was just sitting here thinking to myself what happened to the sound from Traktor while I was doing a sound check before a gig this past Saturday. I use a Denon MC6000 Controller, Macbook 13″ (2008) and a registered copy of Traktor Pro 2.5. My partner and I usually plug into his Behringer Mixer. I also plug into my Behringer Mixer at home.

Well, for this particular gig we decided to plug into the MC6000 because it is truly a stand alone mixer. It appeared that Traktor and the Controller weren’t giving me that full sound. I don’t use Traktor’s LIMITER any more so as I’m sitting here typing this I’m wondering if it was some how enabled so I will need to confirm that.

I will add that I had Cross DJ opened in the background at the same time Traktor was open. The sound coming from Cross DJ was similarly a little weak too. After changing up songs a few times, we noticed that the sound appeared to have been corrected. Although my gain knobs were sitting 12 o’clock I did twist them to make sure they were synced with software, but I don’t think that should’ve been a factor because the problem wasn’t the loudness, but having a FULL sound.

What’s evidence of this is that my partner’s mixer/cd player was plugged into the MC6000. All I did was set him on the 4th Channel and his system was perfectly fine. However, Traktor and Cross DJ were having problems at first and then all of a sudden the sound was FULLER.

I also noticed that the speed of the songs seemed a little slower than normal during the gig. What could this be? Is it the laptop showing a few signs of age? I didn’t keep Cross DJ open all night. I just used it for cocktail hour. My wireless card was also turned off on the Macbook.

Just a weird situation. I remembered Broom having problems with his version so I wondered if anyone ever ran into similar issues with Traktor too?